Presented to: Tim Slover
For: Treasure
With the blend of theatricality, elegance, humor and humanity that characterize his previous work, Tim Slover�s Treasure parses the dialogue between our personal morality and public intercourse and asserts that, at their best, art and politics and religion and love are the sibling eternal conversations that enable us to discover and rediscover the treasure of our hearts and to reconcile the accounts of our lives.
In Treasure, as the fledgling American government spreads its wings, Alexander Hamilton finds the implementation of his designs for the country�s socio-economic well-being blocked by his personal indiscretions. Only by dismantling the barriers built with his own brashness can he open a gate of opportunity for his fellow Americans.
But the greater renovation occurs in Hamilton�s private space, as he and his wife invest their hopes in higher purposes and set out to construct their reconciliation.
Rilke observed that �Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue to exist, a wonderful living side by side can grow up, if they succeed in loving the distance between them, which makes it possible for each to see the other whole and against a wide sky.�
Slover likewise reminds us that each transaction of our lives � public or private � acknowledges the spaces between us and, in the most profitable exchanges among us, reveals the richness of the bonds that unite us. The Association for Mormon Letters is proud to present its 2006 award for Drama to Tim Slover�s Treasure.